Extreme Networks Device Support; Third-Party Device Support - Extreme Networks EPICenter Guide Manual

Extreme Networks Switch Management
ExtremeWare, ESRP information must be obtained via Telnet rather than SNMP. Telnet polling is also
used to obtain power supply IDs for Alpine devices.
Optionally, you can use SSH2 instead of Telnet to communicate with Extreme Networks devices. This
requires that you run a version of ExtremeWare that supports SSH.
You can disable Telnet polling if necessary through the Server Properties for Devices in the Admin
applet. However, you will lose the ability to collect edge port information via FDB polling, as well as
netlogin information.
Edge Port Polling Using the MAC Address Poller
EPICenter can maintain information about the MAC and IP addresses detected on Extreme switch edge
ports by polling the FDB tables of the Extreme switches it is managing. If MAC address polling is
enabled, EPICenter uses Telnet polling to retrieve FDB information at regular intervals based on the
settings of server properties in the Administration applet.
MAC address polling can be enabled or disabled globally. If enabled, it can then be disabled for
individual devices or for specific ports on devices.
EPICenter distinguishes edge ports from trunk ports based on whether the port is running the Extreme
Discovery Protocol (EDP) or the Link layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP). EPICenter assumes that ports
that run EDP or LLDP are trunk ports, and ports that do not run EDP or LLDP are edge ports.
However, trunk ports on non-Extreme devices that do not support EDP or LLDP may be identified
incorrectly as edge ports. You can disable MAC address polling on individual ports to prevent
EPICenter from polling these trunk ports for MAC addresses.
Syncing Device Status with the EPICenter Database
A user with an appropriate role (a role with read/write access to the Inventory Manager) can use the
Sync command from the Inventory Manager to update the device status in the EPICenter database
when the users believes that the device configuration or status is not correctly reported in EPICenter
applets. Sync causes EPICenter to poll the switch and update all configuration and status information
except for uploaded configuration files. During a Sync operation the SmartTraps rules are also reset in
case the user has accidentally deleted the trap receiver or any SmartTrap rules.

Extreme Networks Device Support

Extreme Networks devices running the ExtremeXOS or ExtremeWare software (version 6.2 or later) are
supported by most features in the EPICenter system, including the VLAN Manager and the graphical
display features of the Inventory Manager applet. Some features, such as ESRP, the EAPS monitor, or
the Policy Manager, require more recent versions of the ExtremeWare software. See the EPICenter Release
Note for specific information about the hardware and software versions supported by this release of the
EPICenter software.

Third-Party Device Support

Any device running a MIB-2 compatible SNMP agent can be discovered by the EPICenter Inventory
manager, and saved in the Inventory database. All devices in the database can also appear on a
topology map. The EPICenter alarm system can handle basic MIB-2 SNMP traps from any device in the
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